Miriam Hall

Miriam Hall born November 17, 1877, was an American tennis player of the start of the 20th century. She was the first female from San Francisco to draw national attention when she lost the 1903 US Women's National Championship doubles finals partnering with Marion Jones of Southern California losing in three sets in the doubles finals. Notably, in 1904, she won the women's doubles at the US Women's National Championship with 17 year old May Sutton Bundy. Circa 1911, she attended UC Berkeley where she became their top player the next few years while in her thirties. She wrote a 1914 hard cover instructional book "Tennis For Girls" that was reissued in paperback in 1916. She coached tennis, including serving as women's tennis coach of her alma mater, UC-Berkeley for at least the 1915 season. She later taught tennis at a private school in Berkeley. She never married and died in Alameda County, California on June 18, 1954.